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It proved a no-frills submachine gun designed exclusively for medium-to-close-combat ranges and spawned an entire family of firearms owning their design to the original initiative. The weapon was designed around the principles of cheap production and simplicity in both its operation and assembly. The STEN was a widely-produced personal weapon system (noted as a "machine carbine" but generally categorized as a "submachine gun") of British origin serving during World War 2. Appears to be built on a Mk II with the barrel sawn off nearly to the shroud.The British STEN submachine gun is one of those rare firearms in history that was born of desperation and turned into a war-winning endeavor.
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Prop weapon using natural gas to create muzzle flash. Riff Raff Girls (Du rififi chez les femmes) Seen among saboteurs' guns T-shaped buttstock The Most Wanted Man (L'Ennemi public No 1)įallone's henchmen and plainclothes police The Battle of the Rails (La bataille du rail) Sten Mk II with wooden stock - 9x19mm Film Title The Sten submachine gun has appeared in the following films and video games used by the following actors: Sten Mk I* Feed system: 32-round detachable box magazine (usually only loaded with 30 or 28 due to spring issues).Rate of fire: Version dependent ~500 round/min.Using the same magazines as the MP38, the Sten is subject to similar errors the common habit in fiction of using the magazine as a sidegrip would in real life result in damage to the feed lips of the magazine (the correct part of the gun to grip is either the barrel shroud, the magwell, or the sloped section below the gun ahead of the trigger guard), and the videogame habit of fully loading the magazine would result in spring failures like the MP40, soldiers experienced in using the Sten would typically load magazines with 30 or 28 rounds rather than 32. His substantial efforts to get the Nazi high command to start mass-producing the Sten proved fruitless, however. By his own account, the weapon was so quiet that he demonstrated it by leading a group of officers through an empty park at night, and having one of his men approach from behind and unload an entire magazine into the air, with the officers not believing a weapon had been fired until they were shown the shell casings on the ground. The suppressed version of the Mk II, the Mk II (S), hugely impressed SS officer Otto Skorzeny, who went to great lengths to acquire one. In total approximately 4.5 million Stens were produced, over 2 million of which were the Mark II, which is the iconic Sten gun. It was notable for its very simple design and consequently low production costs which made it an ideal weapon for supplying resistance groups: the relatively uncomplicated construction meant it could also be manufactured in occupied territories without specialised machine tools. The official designation was "Carbine, Machine, Sten" which is due to the British term for what we would now call submachine guns being "Machine Carbine" at the start of the war (submachine gun was at the time regarded as an American term, as it had originated with the Thompson Submachine Gun). The Sten (technically an acronym for Reginald Shephard, Harold Turpin and Enfield but usually written as if it were a proper noun in the same manner as Bren) is a British designed submachine gun manufactured in a number of variants (know as Marks or simply Mks) during the Second World War.